Wild Knoll ( bg, могила Уайлд, mogila Uajld, ) is the peak rising to 1773 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 in the central portion of Bastien Range in

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. The feature has steep and partly ice-free west slopes, and surmounts upper

Minnesota Glacier Minnesota Glacier () is a broad glacier, about long and wide, flowing east through the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica, separating the Sentinel Range and the Heritage Range. It is nourished by ice from the plateau west of the mountains an ...

to the south-southwest. The peak is named after the

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natural history illustrator John James (Jean Jacques) Wild (1824-1900), a member of the British 1872-76

Challenger Expedition The ''Challenger'' expedition of 1872–1876 was a scientific program that made many discoveries to lay the foundation of oceanography. The expedition was named after the naval vessel that undertook the trip, . The expedition, initiated by Wil ...

who took the first

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s in the

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in 1874.

Location

Wild Knoll is located at , which is 12.76 km southwest of

Mount Klayn Mount Klayn ( bg, връх Клайн, vrah Klayn, ) is the peak rising to 2086 m Mount Fisek Mount Fisek ( bg, връх Фисек, vrah Fisek, ) is the peak rising to 1623 m Patmos Peak Patmos Peak ( bg, връх Патмос, vrah Patmos, ) is the peak rising to 2044 mVinson Massif.
Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.

Notes

References

Wild Knoll.

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Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about th ...

.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

Antarctic Place-names Commission The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. The Commission approves Bulgarian place names in ...

. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Wild Knoll.
Copernix satellite image Ellsworth Mountains Bulgaria and the Antarctic Mountains of Ellsworth Land {{EllsworthLand-geo-stub